Slate Money - The Valley of Genius Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Slate Money talks (and listens to) an oral history of Silicon Valley - from outrageous VC funding and juvenile bros to society-altering tech and billion dollar business decisions - with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Adam Fisher.
In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, Emily, and Adam discuss how Steve Jobs got the Apple engineers to understand what the iPhone really was about.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck, @AdamcFisher
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello and welcome to the Valley of Genius edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Felix Salmon. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm joined by Anna Shimanski. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello. |
| 0:28.0 | And by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello. |
| 0:31.3 | And by Adam Fisher, who is the author of the book, named Valley of Genius, the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, although I'm not quite sure if there were censored histories of Silicon Valley. |
| 0:44.5 | In any case, it's this amazing oral history of Silicon Valley where, Adam, you talked to, I'm just going to say everybody who... |
| 0:53.5 | Pretty much everybody. Pretty much everybody. |
| 0:54.5 | Pretty much everybody. |
| 0:56.0 | And you got them on tape and we are going to listen to some of that tape. |
| 1:02.6 | We're going to work out what it tells us about Silicon Valley. |
| 1:04.4 | We're going to listen to a bunch of little clips. |
| 1:07.3 | And at the end of it all, we are going to talk to Charles Duhigg about Elon Musk because |
| 1:14.0 | I feel like that is the apotheosis and the ultimate culmination of what Silicon Valley |
| 1:21.2 | has become and he wrote this amazing piece in Wyand magazine about just how impossible it is to |
| 1:26.1 | work for him. |
| 1:32.2 | We are going to talk about the financial basis of Silicon Valley. |
| 1:35.7 | We are going to talk about the managerial basis of Silicon Valley. |
| 1:39.6 | We are going to talk about the crazy party basis of Silicon Valley. |
| 1:44.0 | And we are going to talk about, and we're going to talk about the iPhone, because you can't |
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